Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-21
NEW YORK DINERS OUT.
Some of the Men who Enjoy the De. lights of the Table.
 From the Boston Record

Some Of the Men who Enjoy she De-
 lights of the Table.
 From the Boston Recordl
 Larry Jerome is not eminent in politics or finance, has never held notable public posi- tion and his wealth is limited, yet when he arrived from England yesterday the whole town began to gossip and today there are interviews in the papers columns in length. It would puzzle an outsider to account for Larry Jerome's prominence. No recent arrival has attracted much attention. Beside him the Siamese princes, the Duke of Marlborough, Sir Lionel Playfair, and Larry Jerome dwarfs them all. The explana- ton is simple: He's a diner-out, and a mighty one at that. His presence at 8 table insures the success of the entertainment. Wherever he goes he is eagerly sought after on account of his jollity, wit and humor. I've known John w. Mackey and Roscoe Conkling to wander about the uptown cafes for hours trying to find Jerome or Tom Oehiltree, so as to carry them off to dinner. A more beautiful and touching sight than these four gentlemen around the festive board it would be impossible to imagine. I've seen them in the now defunct Carleton club when even the walters were impressed by the air of geniality and good fellowship that lowered over the table. Ochiltree was benign, rotund, fiery and joyous. Maekey silent and bright-eyed. smiling with intense amusement; Conkling dignifed, but quiz zical and bright, and Larry Jerome amiable easy, quick as flash at repartee. brimming over with infectious fun-in woId, himself Ochiltree's fame is still growing, and he owes it all to his social qualities. Like Jerome he is short, stout, and the picture of good
 living.
 There are other men in New York who are eagerly sought after on all public oc casions, and whose names figure in the papers as diners out hundred or two times year. Some of them are in politics and others are staid business men when not whooping things up at night. Senator Arthur D. Williams is one of the best after, dinner speakers in New York. He is { | brilliant lawyer, keen political manager and he speaks with the ease of long practice The best quality of his after dinner talk is hi ringing and impetuous style. It carries every l thing before it.
 Commissioner Jacob Hess, who know everybody in New York, is another indefat igable diner out. A dinner without him 1: considered an abortive and silly thing. He has quiet, humorous style that takes vel after dinner. Frederick Gibbs, who is sar castically referred to as "the Wicked Sena tor," is the most extraordinary man eyel met for 1arking and joking. He spends al his time putting up one sort of game .ol another on the miserable men who "enjoy his acquaintance" and the number of ap' palling blunders and mistakes that can bt traced to his door would have abashed the late Comedian Sothern. Henry J. Bangs president of the famous Turtle club, Ii another member of this locally famous little l group He is leather merchant by day but at night his place is st the end of ths big table, where he shines hy natural endow' ment.
 If Roscoe Conkling, Larry Jerome, Ton Ochiltree, Arthur Williams, Commissions Hess, Fred Gibbs and Henry Bangs were tt organize fortnightly dining club, they could make it the success of the year in clubdom, i | they would all agree to be there when th' dinner bell rang.